Ulysse Collin, Champagne AOC, Les Pierrieres Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut

About Ulysse Collin

Based in the village of Congy, Olivier Collin comes from a family of vinegrowers who has been active in the Coteaux du Petit Morin since 1812. Olivier vinified Chardonnay grapes from a 1.2-hectare plot called Les Pierri res where the vines are around 40 years old. It has a shallow, poor topsoil 10 to 50 cm deep over the rocky subsoil of soft Campanian chalk with carbonated silex or Onyx. Ulysse Collin is the only estate in Champagne to release 100% of its wines as single vineyards expressions. Olivier made a second Champagne in 2006, a Blanc de Noirs from a two hectares plot called Les Maillons near the town of S zanne in the coteaux du S zannais. Following Les Maillons was Les Maillons Ros de Saign e and later he would release Les Roises and Les Enfers, two neighboring parcels of Chardonnay with different expositions in his village of Congy (both plots are 62 hares and a much smaller part of the annual production). Today, Olivier currently vinifies the equivalent of 5.3 hectares of the 8.7 he owns, selling the rest of the grapes or juices he does not want for his own production to n gociants. All fermentations occur in Burgundian barrels. The majority are old, but in exceptional vintages, 10 to 25% of new oak barrels enter the rotation. Alcoholic fermentation takes as long as it needs (sometimes up to six months) and is followed by malolactic fermentation.